Every morning, when we wake up, we hardly remember our dreams, but some dreams do affect us to an extent leaving us either happy and gleaming or sad and disturbed. Dreams have baffled researchers as it is still unknown why we dream and their significance - yes, Sigmund Freud did give us his interpretations of dreams, but is there more?
Well, here's a new look at dreams - as tools to help us solve problems. But you may wonder how that is even possible, especially since most of our dreams are illogical and just make no sense at all. But sometimes, dreams can help you find answers or ways to tackle problems, says Deirdre Barrett, a researcher at Harvard who has studied and conducted several experiments on this for more than a decade.
Here's an excerpt from the article written by Rachel Rettner for LiveScience:
The slumbering mind might not seem like an apt tool for any critical thinking, but humans can actually solve problems while asleep, researchers say. Not only that, but one purpose for dreaming itself may be to help us find solutions to puzzles that plague us during waking hours.Read the full article here.
Dreams are highly visual and often illogical in nature, which makes them ripe for the type of "out-of-the-box" thinking that some problem-solving requires, said Deirdre Barrett, a psychologist at Harvard University.Barrett's theory on dreaming, which she discussed at the Association for Psychological Science meeting here last month, boils down to this: Dreaming is really just thinking, but in a slightly different state from when our eyes are open. [Why we dream is just one mystery of the mind.]
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